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3628 177 10 B
SECRET CIPHER
TE. EURAM
From:- G.0.C. Hong Kong.
To
The War Office.
IMMEDIATE.
7518 oipher 18/7.
SECRE T.
083/5979.
Desp.0800 18/7/40. Recd.1515 18/7/40.
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Your 76435 (M.0.2.) 16/7, and my 7512 17/7.
In view of imminence of move of officers and other ranks
families to Australia request immediate repeat immediate authority to offer
the following terms to those concerned. Desirable that officers wives
should not be compelled to go to Australia if more convenient alternative
available for them and to relieve accommodation as far as possible in
Australia. Wives and familes of officers should be given option of
proceeding by Government passage to Australia or making private arrangements
to go elsewhere at own expense without losing right to ultimate repatriation
to U.K. at Government expense.
Officers whose wives do not proceed to
Australia will receive the same scale of marriage allowance as to be
ultimately fixed for Australia. No option to be given to families of other
ranks proceeding to Austrlia where they will be accommodated and fed at
Government expense as proposed in my 7512 of 17/7. F.A. and C.P. concur.
7
C.4. (Telegrams)
To M.0.2. (for action)
Copies to:- Q.M.G.
Ch. Whitmor
24/7
Dept.
D.M.O & P. D.D.M.O.(0).
M.0.1.
..2.2a.2b. M.I.2.20. D. of Q. Q(0).
Q.2.
D. of Mov.
Q(M)2.2c.3. D.F.(C). F.1.2.
Q.M.G.F.
War Registry (Admiralty). Col.Office (Mr.Poynton). F.O. (Mr. Sterndale-Bennett). Dom.Office (Mr.Dixon).
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